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In this week's episode, we spoke about continuous delivery (CD), the premise of delivering safely when you want to.So far, the number of companies adopting CD seems to be behind what was originally projected by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and the difficulty of getting started may be a culprit.We spoke to Ravi Lachman, an evangelist at Harness, about the challenges as well as benefits of CD.
The state of DevOps in CS education - Episode 114
In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hupy, senior education program manager at GitLab about how DevOps is usually missing from computer science curriculums at universities, and what’s needed in order to provide an educational experience that prepare students for the development world."
Cybersecurity and the Tokyo Olympics - Episode 113
With the Tokyo Olympics well underway, many cybersecurity insiders are still on high alert that the event could still face an onslaught of cyberattacks. In this podcast episode, we covered why the event is such a big target for hackers, what the threat landscape looks like, what defenses should be in place, and more together with Lisa Plaggemier, the interim executive director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a nonprofit, public-private partnership promoting cybersecurity and privacy education and awareness.
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Preventing outages with defensive programming - Episode 112
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Managing microservices with automation with Atlassian's Mike Tria - Episode 110
In this week's episode, we're joined by Mike Tria, head of platform engineering at Atlassian, to discuss how automation can help with management aspects of microservices as well as things to avoid when getting started with microservices.
GitOps: Beyond the Basics - Episode 109
Weaveworks CTO Cornelia Davis joins us to talk about the idea of GitOps, what it is, why it is becoming so popular, what are the benefits and how do you go beyond the basic tools and practices. Weaveworks recently released a GitOps Maturity Model that helps organizations evaluate where they are on their journey to continuous delivery with GitOps.
How Quarkus helps developers in a cloud-native world - Episode 108
In today's podcast episode, we talk about Quarkus, a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that was created to help Java developers work in a more cloud-native world.The 2.0 release is scheduled for later this month and with us to talk about it is Rich Sharples, senior director of product management at Red Hat.
Continuous documentation pulls from the concepts of CI/CD - Episode 108
In this podcast episode, we talk about how organizations need to apply the same principles of CI/CD to documentation to keep developers up to speed and to help out with onboarding. As business value evolves the SDLC at an ever-increasing pace, the developers that write certain code simply don’t have the time to create high-quality documentation with their current tools.Our guest this week is Omer Rosenbaum, the CTO at Swimm and the author of the newly released Continuous Documentation Manifesto.
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The future of in-person conferences - Episode 106
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